Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth (1795–1879)

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Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig Graf zu Solms-Baruth (born August 3, 1795 in Baruth ; † February 1, 1879 there ) was a Prussian nobleman and politician.

origin

Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth came from the Solms-Baruth sideline of the noble Solms family , who had owned the hierarchy of the same name in southern Brandenburg since 1596. The Solms-Baruth family had a virile vote in the provincial parliament of Brandenburg and the county of Niederlausitz, in 1847/48 in the First and Second United Landtag , the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag (1848 to 1854) and since 1854 in the Prussian mansion . Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth was the son of Friedrich Carl Leopold Graf zu Solms-Baruth (1757–1801) and his wife Georgine, née Countess von Wallwitz (1768–1839).

family

Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth married Bertha Countess zu Solms-Baruth (1801-1832), with whom he had three children:

  • Friedrich Hermann (1821–1904) ∞ Rosa Teleki de Szek (1818–1890),
  • Marie Wilhelmine Elise (born August 4, 1823 - † August 6, 1910) ∞ Hartmann Erasmus von Witzleben (1805–1878), Upper President of the Province of Saxony
  • Bertha Agnes Luise (born August 14, 1832; † March 27, 1909) ∞ Count Hermann Maximilian zu Lynar (1825–1914). Parliamentarians in the Prussian mansion

After the death of his first wife in childbed after the birth of the third child, he married Ida Countess von Wallwitz (1810-1869), a niece of his mother, for the second time. They still had two children:

Life

Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth had already lost his father at the age of six and thus inherited the Baruth class rule , which consisted of around 15,000 hectares of land with the city of Baruth , sixteen villages and nine suburbs. In addition to managing his estates, he was commander of the Order of St. John . As a member of parliament he had a seat in the provincial parliament of Brandenburg, Niederlausitz and (one after the other) in the United Landtag, in the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag and, from 1855 until his death in 1879, in the Prussian manor house.

Solms-Baruth turned against progress in the emancipation of Jews in Prussia in 1847 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Jutta Ditfurth : The Baron, the Jews and the Nazis. Journey into a family story . Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 2013, ISBN 978-3-455-50273-2 , pp. 63–80